Just a follow up to an old thread (Google groups won't let me post to a thread more than one month old) -
My father in law and I replaced our old hot water cylinder as the tests you suggested confirmed that a dodgy coil was to blame. I was even able to use the cylinder that he had taken out of his house to have a solar hot water system installed so it cost next to nothing.
So far everything seems to be working satisfactorily.
I'm glad that we have a result - and that we rank amateurs (IMM please note!) are able to provide some useful advice now and again.
You've probably been commutated to an armature now then :-)
.andy
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Time to Brush up on your puns again? Is your stator aim to see this thread winding up like some of the others??
It's part of a three phase approach - this is just the starter.
.andy
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The Induction course you might say then?
I knew I'd get shafted, but I'm bearing up.
.andy
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You are are star, and don't arf torque some delta.
Very good. I'll give you that one. :-)
.andy
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I prefer an alternator approach, myself.
Christian.
Real dynamo, aren't we? :-)
Still, I suppose it always pays to be direct on line.
.andy
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Just trying to generate some discussion. I like to get to the core of the issue, rather than stalling for time.
Christian.
I think you're creating static - I can tell van der graaf (with apologies to our Dutch readers).
In Wimshurst, you would be charged and probably die electric.
.andy
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IMM totally lost here
Is it to soon to talk about Fleming's *-hand rule/law.? Jenny-Right-or and Motor-on-the-Left,
"Andy Hall" wrote | In Wimshurst, you would be charged and probably die electric.
DOesn't have quite the same jingly feel-good feel as "cook electric"; I can see why the Electricity Boards as were didn't have telly adverts urging people to "die electric".
Owain
When I lived in North Wales, there was a shop in the village run by a venerable gentleman called Dai Jones.
It was a double fronted Victorian shop with a glass display window on each side and the entrance door in the centre, like hundreds of thousands of shops of its type around the country.
What was interesting here though, was the combination of merchandise. The enterprising Dai was both the village greengrocer and the electrical shop, one on each side.
If you went in there to buy a light bulb and he was selling potatoes, he would take off his brown overall, go out to the back of the shop, wash his hands and return in his white overall to serve on the electrical side.
Then he'd change back
It took ages of course, but nobody seemed to mind.
.andy
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"Andy Hall" wrote | When I lived in North Wales, there was a shop in the village run | by a venerable gentleman called Dai Jones.
Not Evans the Electric then.
| What was interesting here though, was the combination of merchandise. | The enterprising Dai was both the village greengrocer and the | electrical shop, one on each side.
When I lived in Mid Wales there was a shop that did electrics and bicycles. And in Edinburgh there is a shop that is Darts and Television.
Owain
Don't tell my wife that. She already thinks in terms of throwing darts at pictures of people in DIY and woodworking programmes.
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